Residents in Georgia, Other States Want To Secede From U.S.
The move, which is gathering steam, is being done in the wake of President Obama's re-election
Residents of Georgia and more than a dozen other states have filed petitions to secede from the United States, according to media reports. Residents of Alabama, New York, Michigan, Texas and other states have filed the petitions under the "We The People" program, featured on the White House website, according to the Huffington Post. The Georgia petition, which already has more than 4,000 signatures, reads in part: "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..." The petitions come in the wake of President Obama winning a second …
Brian
11:37 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
We just need to have a referendum for the constitution to limit parties to states (no national parties) and update the voting system to prevent supporting a two-party system (approval voting, etc). Then, we just need to protect states' rights, and all will be good for another 200 years. more ›